That's about the time my friends back home started calling me an expat. I had no intentions of becoming one, but I was inspired by the autobiographies of Langston Hughes: The Big Sea and I Wonder As I Wander. My interest in seeing more of the world took me from Boston to Japan in 1996 after finishing college. I planned to stay for only one year, but ended up staying for five. I made the most of the opportunity by learning Japanese, traveling, acting, and even modeling.
The purpose of building my own page was to show the folks back home that my life in Japan wasn't unusually weird or alien. It was also a convenient means of showing eveyone what I was doing rather than having to write lots of letters and send dozens of postcards all the time. As with my job in Japan, this homepage was meant to come to an end when I moved, but here it is still. Who knows when I'll finally delete it. In the meantime, if the links or the photos are old, it's just from neglect. Eventually I always find my way back to this place and clean it up a bit.
Anyway, after leaving Japan in the autumn of 2001 I moved to London to do an MA in International Studies and Diplomacy at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies. My studies in London ended in 2002. In 2003 I returned home.
Now, in 2004, I'm 30.
